LIT 383 - "Sensation" Twentieth Century Art and Literature

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Bentley University

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What defines "art" today How do we view it, talk about it, imagine it This course maps the development of visual art and related literary movements in the twentieth century from Pablo Picasso and Gertrude Stein to the most recent "sensations" of 1999. We will consider the major ideas driving twentieth-century art, its relationship with society and history, its public face and self-definitions. Movements studied will include Cubism, Surrealism, Expressionism and the later American movement, Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, Conceptual Art, and finally the two great umbrella paradigms, Modernism and Postmodernism. Authors studied may include Stein, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Kafka, Surrrealist and Expressionist poets, Raymond Carver, E.L. Doctorow, and Angela Carter among others.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.bentley.edu

Phone Number:

(800) 523-2354

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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